Silent Hill
August 17, 2006
Since Christophe Gans’ surprise international success with Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001), there has been a certain amount of anticipation for what he would do next after showing such promise with a film that effortlessly juggled several genres. For...
Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier
August 15, 2006
Made only a few years after the Vietnam War ended, Apocalypse Now (1979) was Francis Ford Coppola’s ambitious fusion of Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness and the madness of the American experience in that war. Riding high on the success of The...
CSI: NY: Season 2, Part 1
August 14, 2006
CSI, Crime Scene Investigation is a popular American T.V. series, attracting 17 million viewers an episode, that has swept across the world spawning many spin offs, video games, comics, novels and heaps of other merchandise, just like many other American...
Invasion: The Complete Series
August 14, 2006
Poor Shaun Cassidy. If he didn’t have bad luck he’d have no luck at all. In 1995, he created American Gothic, a creepy supernatural drama for network television that was unable to garner decent enough ratings to stay on the air. In 2005, he returned...
Inside Man
August 11, 2006
Spike Lee is the last filmmaker you’d imagine making a slick heist film for a major studio and yet that is exactly what he’s done with Inside Man (2006), a cleverly staged and executed thriller. What’s even more incredible is that this intricately...
I Know What You Did Last Summer: The Collection
August 10, 2006
At first glance, it seems incredible that a film as awful as I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) did well enough to spawn two sequels. How could a film that was essentially Beverly Hills 90210 meets Scooby Doo with blood have been so successful? It’s...
The Garden
August 8, 2006
The Garden (2005) introduces us to Sam (Gordon), a hyper-sensitive young boy who suffers from visions and cuts himself in order to control these hallucinations. His father David (Wimmer) is a recovering alcoholic six months sober and recently divorced....
Prison Break: Season 1
August 7, 2006
The opening of the Prison Break television show is something right out of a Sam Fuller movie. A non-descript man gets an extensive tattoo on his body and then proceeds to rob a bank with the sole purpose of getting arrested. He pleads no contest and is...
A Canterbury Tale
August 4, 2006
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger updated Chaucer’s A Canterbury Tale by setting it during World War II (the film actually came out in 1944) – August 1943 to be exact, when U.S. soldiers were arriving in England in preparation for D-Day. Right...
The Tooth Fairy
August 3, 2006
Writer/producer Stephen J. Cannell continues to challenge Roger Corman’s throne as the king of quickie B-horror movies made on the cheap. He struck a deal a few years ago with Anchor Bay Entertainment to distribute his films that feature a host of B-movie...
